Went to view a flat 2 months ago and what was in the hallway? A disused Flying Scot. After finally tracking the owner down, I'm now the proud owner. He had had it since 1982 and had been his dream bike since he was a child but could never afford one. He's too old to ride bikes now and I think it was quite a reluctant sale.

We chatted for ages about cycling in Glasgow and the old Flying Scot workshop, Rattray etc. There was a tear in his eye when he handed it over but I told him I'd be in touch and bring round the finished restored bike to show it still has life in it.

I also got an old Marlboro Venom racer from him. Don't know much about Marlboro except they used to make BMXs in the 70s? If anyones looking for a wee project, I'll get some pics up tonight.

Went to view a flat 2 months ago and what was in the hallway? A disused Flying Scot. After finally tracking the owner down, I'm now the proud owner. He had had it since 1982 and had been his dream bike since he was a child but could never afford one. He's too old to ride bikes now and I think it was quite a reluctant sale.

We chatted for ages about cycling in Glasgow and the old Flying Scot workshop, Rattray etc. There was a tear in his eye when he handed it over but I told him I'd be in touch and bring round the finished restored bike to show it still has life in it.

I also got an old Marlboro Venom racer from him. Don't know much about Marlboro except they used to make BMXs in the 70s? If anyones looking for a wee project, I'll get some pics up tonight.

Im looking for a racer to do a conversion on. Dont have much money the now though.

All I need is the seatpost for that. It's all built up, tubs are glued and everything. I just need Mr ct to get back to me about paying for his post and it'll be done.

What I can say, is that it's tight. There's almost no visible clearance at the fork crown or the seat stay bridge and it's going to look pretty aggressive with the slammed front end. It might even be painful to ride.....

Nothng dangerous about it, Bamboo is a well estabished material for building bicycles, its basicaly a natural carbon fibre, extremely strong and very hard, you have to cut the stuff with a hacksaw. its good enough for calfee design to build bamboo bikes.

Aye it would be sound if I could keep the Paintjob it has, but it's a bit tatty and has a wee ding on the top tube. It'll look alot smarter after it's done - only big minus is it costs a bleedin fortune to re-do the chrome and is a bit too knackered to keep as is, so I'm losing it.

I bought it off a bloke called Tel on lfgss - search Batavus on there and he comes up. Seems to have a line in them. Connections in the Netherlands perhaps? Dunno who might have raced it though.

The cover panel over the BB - serial number's on it, and the threads are grand etc. But there are gaps either side of the panel so you can see into the BB. Is that normal?

I was impressed with Wheelcraft when i went up, every wheel being made looked like a labour of love!

This'll be my first build from scratch so it'll be more for love then money. If I enjoy the project I might sell it to start again. Plan is for it to be my smart/summer bike!

Just under 6'2". Inside leg is 97cm. I should have been a can can dancer.

It was actually a bit difficult to find a frame to build up on that was gonna be big enough. Lots of really great frames out there around 56/57cm. . So

I bought some new SLX decals for it of eBay. That Australian chap - Cyclemodo or some such -good seller and all that but not blown away by the product itself. They're ok, but they're copies which'll never be as good as the real thing. Don't s'pose anyone has a line on getting original Columbus decals?!

They'll maybe look better on the frame. You can sort of see, when you look at them close up, the stepped character of the letters cause they've been done by digital printing rather then lithograph. But you need to be looking at them quite closely so it's not a big deal really.

Aye It's generally going to need some TLC. Looking forward too it though! I got it for a good price, a very good price. A friends dad wanted it to go to a home where he new some one would be willing to spend some time on it. Very excited to get this going! Now all i need is money!